PROGRAM

Overview on extraordinary finance operations and company valuation.

• The reasons behind an extraordinary finance operation
• Overview of the main extraordinary finance operations
• Defining the concept of company value: Enterprise Value and Equity Value
• Valuation methods: overview and basic concepts for conducting a valuation
• Valuation methods in detail: Asset-based, Income-based, Hybrid, Financial-based, Market multiples.

M&A: Acquisitions, Mergers, and Company Sales

• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Operations
Why and When to Acquire a Company: Reasons and Strategic Advantages
Determinants of Success and Failure in Mergers and Acquisitions
Phases of a Sales Project and an Acquisition Project
Acquisition Processes: Leveraged Buy Out (LBO)
Typical LBO Interventions:
Spinout (Business Unit Sale), Delisting, Generational Change, Shareholder Restructuring.
The structure of an acquisition deal.

Private Equity & Venture Capital

• Financial life cycle of a company and main financing instruments.
• Defining and classifying aspects of private equity and venture capital investors.
Types of transactions.
Types of operators.
Advantages of private equity and venture capital.
Performance indicators and types of risks of funds.
• The stages of a private equity or venture capital transaction:
scouting, screening, analysis, negotiation, due diligence, closing, monitoring, disinvestment.
• The main operational issues and mistakes in the Private Equity and Venture Capital cycle in each phase.
• Conclusions on the conditions for creating value in a Private Equity or Venture Capital operation.

What is FINTECH and scope of application for companies

FINTECH Tools for Financing Working Capital: Peer-to-Peer Lending
How the P2P Lending platform works for short-term financing
The main P2P platforms operating in ItalyPro and cons
Analysis of real-life cases of P2P Lending financing in the short term
- THE FINTECH to finance investment:
Debt-financed investments: medium- to long-term Peer2Peer Lending
Equity-financed investments: Equity Crowdfunding
- Real case analysis: Case of Technological Transformation of the Finance Division of a company

DEDICATED ASSESSMENT

The course offers a dedicated session for each participant. One2one dedicated to you, provided by Value4You on:

• Advisory: on-site consultancy if you are a Director, Executive, or Entrepreneur.
• Mentoring: professional mentoring if you are a Manager or a Professional. 
• Tutoring: career guidance if you are a junior figure or a recent graduate. 

GOALS

After the course you will be able to:
- Distinguish between ordinary finance and extraordinary finance.
- Understand the theory behind enterprise value (enterprise value) and its modifications.
- Analyze the relationship between debt and equity and the various technical forms available in the market.
- Analyze the main aspects and critical issues of leverage.
- Understand the implementation conditions and benefits of extraordinary transactions.
- Examine the critical issues of extraordinary transactions.
- Analyze the main features of private equity and venture capital.
- Examine the benefits of private equity and venture capital in the context of making choices about a company's financial structure.
- Understand how to estimate the financial needs of a start-up.
You will also get an overview of the fintech and investment lifecycle industry with real applications.

WHO IT'S FOR

Accountants, recent graduates in business disciplines, professionals, entrepreneurs, and junior and middle managers working in financial economics.

CERTIFICATE

A fronte della regolare partecipazione e dello svolgimento del project work, verrà rilasciato un attestato di partecipazione.

OTHER DETAILS

The lessons are divided into 2-hour sessions each and conducted in interactive small-sized classes.